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ArcGIS Business Analyst Desktop software combines GIS analysis and visualization capabilities with an extensive demographic and business data bundle, so you can gain a better understanding of your market, customers and competition.

Organizations use Business Analyst Desktop to make critical decisions about consolidations or expansions, determine the effect of changes in consumer behaviour on existing business models and explore opportunities driven by economic factors and changes in the marketplace. It provides business professionals with a complete solution for site evaluation, selective customer profiling and trade area market analysis.

Market Research and Planning
Use your customer data to evaluate existing and new store locations and the performance of your stores in relationship to your competitors' locations. Draw simple or complex market area boundaries based on customer counts or sales and calculate market penetration compared to the total population. Develop a 5-year forecast to analyze competitive and complementary businesses and determine supply and demand for your goods and services in a specific area.

Customer Profiling and Prospecting
Create profiles of your most profitable customers, including their income, demographics, spending habits, interests and preferences, so they will purchase your goods and services. Use this information to analyze geographic areas where your ideal customer types reside. Conduct targeted marketing campaigns and make targeted merchandizing decisions based on your findings to save time and money.

Site Selection
Create detailed, justifiable recommendations on where to locate, re-locate, re-model or close a store. Quickly and accurately perform evaluation analyses such as distance decay or proximity for a single site or for multiple locations. Integrate your customer data with business, shopping centre, demographic or consumer expenditure data to choose the best area for your new location.

Components

Business Analyst is an extension built for use with ArcGIS and can be used with ArcGIS Desktop Basic, ArcGIS Desktop Standard or ArcGIS Desktop Advanced. These components are included in the Business Analyst package:

ArcGIS Business Analyst extension software—Provides tools for mapping, analysis and managing work

StreetMap Premium for ArcGIS—Provides basemaps and U.S. national street network

Geocoding service—Takes your customer or store addresses and locates them on a map

ArcGIS Network Analyst extension —Provides drive-time/drive-distance analysis and routing capability. The full license to this extension is included with Business Analyst

Data

ArcGIS Business Analyst Desktop comes complete with a wealth of Canadian data. View data that is available across the various platforms and license levels.

Maintenance

First-year maintenance is also included in the license. Maintenance includes technical support, updates and many other benefits.

Licensing

Business Analyst Desktop is available in a Basic or Standard license level and with a regional or national Canadian data package. Business Analyst Desktop is an extension to and requires an ArcGIS Desktop license. Use of Esri software is subject to the Esri License Agreement.